Pin-ticket.



M. 0. ANTHONY.

` PIN TICKET.

APPLI`CATION-FILED MAY l0, 1917.

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MARCUS 0. ANTHONY, OF NEW YORK,

NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO A. KIMBALL COMPANY, OF

OF NEW YORK.

PIN-TICKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 24, 191e.

Application led May 10, 1917. Serial No. 167,708.

To all Lo/tom t may concern:

Be it known that I, MARoUs O. ANTHONY, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, county of New York, State of New York, h'ave invented an Improvement in Pin-Tickets, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawing, is a specification, like characters on the drawing representing like parts.

This invention relates to improvements in pin tickets which are connnonly attached to articles of merchandise and bear the price, lot number, size and other such informaq tion as may be desired. Tickets of this character are usually provided with penetrating members which are inserted through a portion of the goods, said penetrating members then being bent down against the goods. The resiliency, however, of the penetrating members is likely to raise the point-s above the layer or layers to which the ticket is affixed sutliciently to snag other layers or other articles of merchandise which may be brought into contact with the article bearing the pin ticket.

The principal object of the present invention is to provide means for protecting the end `of the afiixing member and preventing the same from snagging other articles. A further object of the invention is to provide a device of this character in which the point protecting means will also serve as a locking means to secure the ticket more rmly to t-he article to which it is atlixed. A further object of the invention consists in providing a point protecting means of the character referred to which will serve also to reinforce vand st-iifen the ticket itself. Other objects and features of the invention will more fully appear from the following description and the accompanying drawings and will be pointed out in the annexed claims.

In the drawings,

Figure l is a perspective view showing the reverse face of a pin ticket embodying one of the preferred forms of the invention;

Fig. 2 is a similar view of a modified form of the invention;

Fig. 3 isa plan view of the reverse face of the ticket shown in Fig. 1 illustrating the relation of the parts when the ticket is applied to a piece of fabric;

Fig. l is a similar view of the form of ticket shown in Fig. 2;

Fig. 5 is a longitudinal sectional view of the ticket secured to a layer of cloth or other material; and

Fig. 6 is a plan view of the reverse face of a ticket showing a modified form of the invention in which a single penetrating member is employed.

The improved pin ticket illustrated in the accompanying drawings comprises a ticket or card which may be of card board or any other suitable material to receive the usual notations, a penetrating member secured to the card and a point protecting and locking member secured to the card by the penetrating member having means adapted to overlie the end portions of the penetrating member and prevent them from engagement with other materials. As illustrated in Figs. 3 and 5 the pin ticket comprises the usual card l having an aiixing member 2 in the form of a staple, the legs of which are thrust through the card l adjacent the central portionof one end thereof, and a point protecting and locking member 3 which preferably is secured to the reverse face of the card 1 by the staple 2, the loop portion of the same extending around the edge of the card and being bent firmly against the under face of the point protecting and locking member 3.

he legs el: and 5 of the staple are bent substantially in parallelism with the reverse face of the card and with each other and are located a short distance away from the cuter surface of the point protecting member. The point protecting member 3, as illustrated in Figs. 1,3 and 5, is substantially rectangular in form having a central slit extend-ing from its lower edge beyond the ends of the Shanks t, 5 of the aliixing members. The central portion of the point protecting member 3 is apertured beneath the shanks A and 5 tol receive Ithe portion of the material to which the device is afixed, which lies between the shanks 4:, 5 of the aliixing member and the card itself.

This construction provides an aixing member having two flaps 6, 7 terminating in transversely enlarged portions 8, 9 which are adapted to overlie, respectively, the ends of the aliixing member 4C, 5. In the operation of the device the reverse face of the pin ticketv is laid against `the articles to which the ticket is to be attached and is moved alon the article so that the penetrating mem ers 4, 5 will penetrate one or points from engaging other articles of merchandise or other folds ofthe layers of the same material, and also to lock the ticket upon `,the bight of the material which is engaged by thepenetrating members.

In the modified form of the invention illustrated in Figs. 2 and 4 the locking member 3 comprises a base portion Whichvextends across one end of the card and is affixed tothe card by the penetrating member .2, as in the form illustrated in Fig. 1. The point protecting and locking member, however', is in the form of aI cross, the longitudinal member 10 of which extends length- Wise of the card intermediate of the shanks s 4, 5 of the penetrating member and the arms 11, 12 ofv which extend laterally beyond the points of the penetrating members 4, 5. The extremity 13 of the longitudinal membeil 10 forms a convenient handle by which the point protecting member may be manipulated to cause the arms 11, 12 to cover the points of the penetrating member after the latter has been inserted in the material to be marked.

A simplilied form of the invention is illustrated in Fig. 6 and comprises in eiiect a ticket substantially like l one-half of the ticket illustrated in Figs. land 3. The device illustrated in Fig. 6 comprises the card 1,*the penetrating member 2 and the point protecting` and locking member 3, the lat-A ter corresponding to the iiap 7 of the form illustrated in Fig. 1. The penetrating member, however, in this form is a single piece of Wire having its end portion 15 bent around the end of the card 1 and the point protecting member 3 and serving to secure the latter firmly to the card. The shank 16 extends parallel to the reverse face of the card and a short distance therefrom, and its point projects over the flap 17 of the point protecting member. I n use the penetrating member 1G is applied to the material in a manner above described and the lflaps 17 thereafter caused to overlie the end of the shank 16, as above described With respect to the other forms of the invention.

It is to be understood that the embodiments of the invention disclosed herein are v illustrative and not restrictive and the in- Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

vention may be embodied in other forms Within the meaning and scope of the following claims.

I-Iaving fully described my invention, What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A pin ticket comprising a card to receive notations, a pin secured to said card having the free end adapted to be thrust through the portion of the article to be marked, and a locking member for the free end of the pin secured to the card by said pin. l Y

2. A pin ticket comprising a card to receive notations, a pin secured to said card having a. free end portion extending in parallelism with the reverse face of said card, a locking member having a base portion also secured to Said card by said pin, and point protecting means integral with said base portion operable to cover and protect the end of said pin after the same has been thrust through a portion of the article to be marked.

3. A pin ticket comprising a card to receive notations, a pin for securing the card to the article to be marked, a member for protecting the point of said pin, a portion of the body of said pin penetrating both the card and the point protecting member and embracing the edges of the card and the point protecting member and serving to secure the same permanently together.

4. A pin ticket comprising a card to receive notations, a staple for securing the card to the article to be marked, and a point protecting means comprising a member secured to the reverse face .of the card and clamped thereupon by the looped portion of the staple, the said point protecting means having flaps adapted to overlap the ends of the staples after the same have been thrust through the article to which the ticket is afxed.

5. A` pin ticket comprising a card to receive notations, a staple for securing the card to the article to be marked, and a point protecting means comprising a member secured to the reverse face of the ticket and clamped thereupon by the looped portion of the staple, the said point protecting means having flaps adapted to overlap the ends of the staple after the same have been thrust through the article to which the ticket is atlixed, the legs of said staple extending normally in parallelism With the reverse face of the card and separated a slrort distance therefrom.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification.

MARCUS O. ANTHONY.

Washington, D. G. 

